At a time of bitter divisions and gridlock, with high stakes issues from North Korea to climate change, widening economic inequality to health care on the table, it is more important than ever to resurrect this spirit of bipartisan compromise.

Polls show most Americans think Democrats and Republicans should work together to mend the Affordable Care Act, not end it. That means working on bipartisan solutions to the problems the American people want us to solve.

“Colorado is likely to run out of CHIP funding in January, with termination notices going out to worried families in the next few weeks,” Ms. DeGette said. “Yet here we are with a partisan bill that asks us to pay for low-income children’s insurance on the backs of seniors and the most vulnerable."

“This incident shows how urgent the need is to find better ways to protect personal data,” Rep. Diana DeGette, the ranking member on the House subcommittee on oversight and investigations, told Gizmodo. “Clearly, as a country we need to craft new means to keep thieves and hackers from obtaining and using personal information. Simply compensating consumers whose data has been hacked with a year of monitoring is not going to be enough.”